Justice League Europe (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1991.
Synopsis for "Break Downs: Part Eight: The Center Cannot Hold"
After being stripped of their United Nations backing and evicted from their embassies, the Justice League International assemble to reclaim their former base of operations. While exploring the cave, the Elongated Man, Flash, and Blue Beetle set out to make contact with its current residents the Doom Patrol, only to find themselves in an unreal landscape. There, they are tasked by a cabinet-headed individual known as the Head of the Welcoming Bureau with clearing the sinuses of "the One True Nose." The Flash, frustrated by the situation's lack of logic, windmills his arms and returns the three Leaguers to reality, revealing their encounter to be the product of a hallucinogenic gas which the Beetle speculates to be a Doom Patrol defense system. At last, the three reach the Chief of the Doom Patrol, who orders them to leave and slams a door in their faces, and the Leaguers decide that the matter is best left to team leader J'onn J'onzz.
Meanwhile, Manga Khan recruits Lobo for a repossession job, Inspector Camus finds that the models of supervillain team the Extremists have vanished from Madame Clouseau's Wax Museum, and Major Disaster is shocked by Justice League International head Maxwell Lord's sudden emergence from a vegetative state.
Appearing in "Break Downs: Part Eight: The Center Cannot Hold"
Featured Characters:
- Justice League Europe (Flashback and main story)
- Blue Jay (Flashback and main story)
- Crimson Fox (Flashback and main story)
- Elongated Man (Flashback and main story)
- Flash (Flashback and main story)
- Metamorpho (Flashback and main story)
- Power Girl (Flashback and main story)
- Rocket Red (Flashback and main story)
- Silver Sorceress (Flashback and main story)
- Justice League America
Supporting Characters:
- Belina Pushkin (Flashback and main story)
- Mischa Dmitrovich Pushkin (Flashback and main story)
- Tascha Pushkin (Flashback and main story)
- Sue Dibny (Flashback and main story)
- Catherine Cobert (Flashback and main story)
Antagonists:
- Manga Khan
- Manga Khan's robot minions
- Lobo
Other Characters:
- Aquaman (Mentioned only)
- Batman (Statue only)
- Booster Gold (Statue only)
- André Breton (Mentioned only)
- Inspector Camus (Flashback and main story)
- Captain Marvel (Mentioned only)
- Doom Patrol
- The Chief
- Scarlet Harlot (Mentioned only)
- Booster Gold (Statue only)
- Green Arrow (Statue only)
- Green Lantern (Statue only)
- Hawkman (Statue only)
- The Head of the Welcoming Bureau (First appearance) (Hallucination)
- Khunds (Mentioned only)
- Liberty
- Maxwell Lord
- Lords of Chaos (Mentioned only)
- Lords of Order (Mentioned only)
- Major Disaster
- Multi-Man
- The One True Nose (First appearance) (Hallucination)
- Power Girl's Cat
- Chief of Kooey Kooey Kooey
- Don Quixote (Mentioned only)
- Robin (Statue only)
- Superman (Statue only)
- Carl Yastrzemski (Mentioned only)
- Lester Young (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Rhode Island
- England
- London
- Justice League Embassy (Flashback only)
- Madame Clouseau's Wax Museum
- London
- New York City
- New York General Hospital
Items:
Vehicles:
Trivia
- The green robot reporting to Manga Khan has a passing resemblance to C-3PO from Star Wars.
- The Head of the Welcoming Bureau's dialogue references DC Comics writers John Broome and Gardner Fox.
- This issue takes place concurrently with Doom Patrol (Volume 2) #49, in which the D.P. was in the process of moving out of the Secret Sanctuary after occupying it for several issues. The gas-fueled hallucinations seen in this issue parody the storylines presented in Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol.
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